To the point of three, Aussie blokes are adventurers so you better get that passport ready. Aussie men are generally happy and relaxed beings Translation : Tip most budgie smuggler wearers are not looking at you girlfriend, or are the PM or footy players and that would mean you would have to become a WAG.
Need something fixed around the house? Aussie blokes are great with their hands and know their way around a toolbox. Translation : He says he will get around to fixing the tap, but on his time, code for never. Having grown up with the beach, outdoor sports and Vegemite, Aussie blokes are bursting with vitality.
Aussie men including Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth have been named the sexiest men alive. Enough said! But the Australian male culture so memorably immortalised in that song, which has found its way north of the equator by way of fictitious characters such as Mick "Crocodile" Dundee and his real-life incarnations such as Steve Irwin, is under threat - at least according to one Australian former politician.
Mark Latham, who led the Labour party in opposition from January until December , this week released an anthology of his favourite quotes and anecdotes in which he claims that the traditional Australian male is a dying breed, rapidly being replaced by "nervous wrecks, metrosexual knobs and toss bags".
Obviously a man with his own inimitable phraseology, year-old Latham has titled the book A Conga Line of Suckholes , the charming expression he once used to describe Prime Minister John Howard. And what, or who, does Latham blame for the alleged castration of the Australian male? Apparently it's down to what he describes as "powerful influences": "the rise of left-feminism in the s and s", "changes in the workplace and family unit", and "the prominence of neo-conservatism".
But do Australians themselves agree with Latham's claims, or has the former politician started driving the nails into an empty coffin? Australian Geoff Naddell, who has been living in Dublin for 12 years, owns the Woolshed Bar on the multi-cultural melting pot that is Dublin's Parnell Street. Backpacker Sam Bourke, who has been in Ireland for seven months, is similarly sceptical about the apparent demise of the traditional Australian male culture, but admits that in urban areas many Aussie blokes are swapping flannelette for something a little trendier, and morphing into the "metrosexual" that Latham lambastes.
In the 60s and 70s, there was a cultural push in Australian society to instate a white, collective, homogeneous Australian identity occurring alongside the abolition of the White Australia policy. There was a push towards Australian national pride, encouraging consumption of local goods and entertainment, and the inclusion of white Australian history in the school curriculum. Read more: Australian politics explainer: the White Australia policy.
Simultaneously, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fought and continue to fight for increased recognition for rights, histories, and social justice — standing in contrast to colonial ideas of Australian identity and heritage. As Australian life moved further away from idealised bloke, this man was being revived on screen. But the prevailing image of Hogan is as Mick Dundee, a character which also helped form a global reputation of Australia as a place that is easy-going and unconcerned with material lifestyles — despite Australia being quite the contrary, thanks to post-war prosperity.
Dundee has spurred parodies and a cameo on The Simpsons. Last year, Tourism Australia created a trailer for a fake new instalment of the Crocodile Dundee films to promote Australia tourism. In a regression to stereotype, Paul Hogan introduced the world to this phrase and in the process invited countless tourists to come over. Australians aren't in the habit of cooking small people -- a "shrimp" refers to a yabby or more simply, a "prawn".
It's a way to invite someone to your house for lunch, where you throw a shrimp or a "snag," that's a sausage on the barbie. Do the Harry. Harold Holt was the prime minster who disappeared off Victoria's coast in He did the bolt, some say, from the responsibilities of the prime ministership.
Some suggest the secretly communist politician was abducted by a Chinese submarine or UFO. More likely, he was caught in deadly currents and washed out to sea from Cheviot Beach, near Portsea. His body, however, has never been found, so anyone doing a disappearing act is doing a "Harold Holt.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It's not quite you're "damned if you do, damned if you don't," nor is it being "caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Unless, of course, it's a baker's dozen. Not pissing on someone when they're on fire. Means you don't really care about somebody.
Even if they were on fire, you wouldn't do them the service of pissing on them to put the fire out. Crikey, blimey. Euphemisms used to communicate amazement or surprise. Oi for drongos and galahs. Chanted three times after "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie," in perhaps the world's cheesiest national cry. But in normal use, it's mouthed when you disagree with what someone is doing, or to convey annoyance and get someone's attention: when you're being a "drongo" or a "galah" -- in fact, not native birds, but someone who has "rocks in their head" -- doesn't know what they're doing.
Blokes and sheilas. When Julia Gillard was voted in as the country's first female prime minister, it didn't take long for Australia to start calling the prime minister's partner "the first bloke. Bushman's handkerchief.
Not really a handkerchief at all, but using your hands to delicately drain the snot from your nose. Onya bike. Tell your story walkin'.
When you don't want to have anything to do with someone, you tell him or her to get "onya bike," which suggests he or she leave. Quite the opposite to "hold your horses," which requests someone to stay, or begs their patience, similar to "keep your pants on" or "don't get your knickers in a knot.
Lobster, pineapple, gray nurse. Australians don't barter with lobsters and pineapples, but most have had at least one friend ring them up or hit them up at the pub to lend a lobster or a pineapple. Smoko, garbo, bowlo, bottlo, arvo. An "o" is the suffix to any word it can shorten. If in doubt, throw an "o" on the end of the word and it's bound to be Australian.
A break when you smoke is a "smoko.
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